The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-07-02
WAVING THE BLOODY SHIRT.

Our neighbor, the Post. deprecates
harsh statements or misjudgments,
and in the very same column prints
this:-"The democratic press is lond
just now i'm accusing the republicans
of waving the bloody shirt but the
facts are the democrats are themselves
waving the bloody shirt for all it is
worth. The time has fully arrived
when a man cannot say one word in
support of the government, nor in hon
or of those who saved it from destruc-
ton, without being accused of trying
| to revive sectional hate. The patriots
aud all their work for the upbuilding
and preservation of the nation, must be
run over in the most rampant fashion,
and if one word of protest is uttered,
the cry of bloody shirt is raised.'
Now, how is any one to have patience
with such utter Misrepresentation as
this? 1t is go ridiculously untrue that it
is appalling that any man can even
pretend to believe it.
What democrat, anywhere from
Passamaauoddy to San Diego bays,
from Canada to the gulf, is complain
ing of any persons having supported
the government, or spoken a good
| word of the deeds of the heroes OF the
| Union army? What one? Name just
one. 1t cannot be done.
Our contemporary seems to forget
| that without democratic men in the
| ranks and democratic officers, among
| the best fighters in the Federal army,
| the war would have been lost to the
union. 1t forgets, when it talks OF
| the federal government, that Grover
| Cleveland is its president, and that the
disloyalty to the government is in the
mouths of blatant demagogues like
FairchiId, who in his wrath calls upon
| God TO paralyze him, thus bidding tor
| the bullet of a Guiteau which he has
| the venom but not the courage himself
to speed.
Show us where a democrat is ell
deavoring to fan the embers OF the war
as MIR. Sherman did in his speech at
Springfield? To see the malice and
hypocrisy of the man IL has but to
read his speeches in Tennessee and
Illinois. He seems to- have forgotten
the invention of the telegraph. Talk OF
fossils! There you have one re ady to
your hand.
The south has had but one orator OF
late his name was Grady. He spoke
of industry, of fraternity, OF peace.
The republican party has had three,
John Sherman, Gen. Fairchild and
Gen. futile. They breathed but bitter
ness and hate.
Just think what a howl would have
gone up all over this broad country If a
republican president had been invited
to one of our cities, and a democratic
organization had protested against it,
denounced him with coarse and brutal
language as Gen. Tuttle did, and then
had its chief officer to arise and call up
on God to paralyze his head. his tongue,
his hand?
Our contemporary has undertaken q
bad job. The country is at peace, and
we promise it now that whenever il
finds a democratic fool waving a bloody
shirt-deprecating any honor to be
bestowed upon northern valor ,or in any
way reyiving the animosities OF the
past, if he will point it out to US We
shall take pleasure in aiding him &c
condemn it. In the meantime the os
trich cannot conceal its whole body b.
hiding its head in the sand, and Messrs
Fairchild, Tuttle and their followers
and claquers must take the conse'
uuences of their fOlly,